Funk Quotes · Page 2

I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.

— Craig Robinson

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

— Erykah Badu

We're gonna dance on the funk and make love on this song.

— Rick James

I'm not going to play funk licks on a jazz album. That makes no sense.

— Branford Marsalis

You're just a lover out to score and I know that I should be looking for more.

— Deniece Williams

Providence School of Art students used to sneak into P Funk concerts.

— Bernie Worrell

If you fake the funk, your nose will grow.

— Bootsy Collins

I bring the funk. It's a different style.

— Aljamain Sterling

I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing.

— Chris Carter

Being jazz-trained, things happen spontaneously. Even though it's funk rock, we still have the instincts of a jazz musician.

— Trombone Shorty

Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.

— Questlove

I love rock, pop, and funk. I love being able to blend these three and create something unique for people.

— Joe Jonas

Standard English is very imperialistic, controlled, and precise; it's not got a lot of funk or soul to it.

— Irvine Welsh

I can spot a musical type. I can tell by looking at a woman whether she is a contralto or a soprano.

— Walther Funk

I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.

— Rick James

If some people don't like funk music then it's just the wrong time for them. They will get it. It's addictive.

— George Clinton

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk…

— Ikue Mori

This is jazz, this is funk, this is soul, this is gospel This is sanctified sick, this is player Pentecostal. This is…

— Killer Mike

The underground went really underground. Grand Funk, and all these people man are the moderate's choice of music. Underground is Yoko Ono,…

— David Bowie

I started playing with this band, the Polyester Players. It was my introduction into funk. So I went and got a James…

— Kamasi Washington

I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we…

— Steven Sater

When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz,…

— Jonathan Rhys Meyers

Every problem seems like a mountain to me, and when I'm fit, I feel like I can conquer anything. When the opposite…

— Ranveer Singh

What isn’t on my iPod playlist? I have very eclectic tastes. Jazz. Classic Rock. Hip Hop. Ska. Soul. Electronica.World Music. Funk. Blues.…

— Michele Norris

A few Disney TV composers had me pinch-hit writing some scoring cues to picture. Disney tapped me to be the composer for…

— Danny Jacob

There was a time when hip-hop was its own musical principle, aside from sampling. Like the entire Wild Style break is instrumental.…

— Mos Def

I enjoy creating all types of music and I take inspiration from everything around me. Its not about trends or what’s fashionably…

— Miguel Migs

I think in everything we did, there's a sense of tension and a sense of things pulling in a different way. It's…

— Stephen Mallinder

Basically I made her [ Sara Pocock] listen to funk music for a good month, a nonstop stream of George Clinton. I…

— Baron Vaughn

I stand humbled on bended knee but, of course, the response to that would be 'Duh!' And to be given that incredible…

— Ted Nugent

People are like, 'What do you mean you don't listen to 115 different types of music?'. You can't just listen to The…

— Adam Faulkner

“Josh Funk and Hunter Fraser: we haven't been in touch in years, but you made me feel like the funniest kid in…

— B.J. Novak

My first love was rock and funk. Rap was an accident.

— Scarface

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

— John Otto

“If that’s what it takes you pull you out of this funk.”

— Meredith Potts

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

— Billy Joel

Off stage it's cool-out time. You can't funk and roll ALL the time.

— Rick James

The only thing harder than Terry Funk's legs are his arteries.

— Jerry Lawler

I have never met one person who likes Grand Funk.

— Ritchie Blackmore

We're bustin' out on some serious funk, y'all!

— Rick James